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Toronto — The Tigers didn’t need validation from an outside source, of course, but it’s never a bad thing when the opposing manager gives a hat-tip to one of your young foundation pieces. Angels manager Joe Maddon came away impressed after watching rookie lefty Tarik Skubal dispatch 17 of 19 hitters after allowing a two-run homer to
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Detroit — Wednesday night, the crowd at Comerica Park chanted, “MVP, MVP,” as Angels Shohei Ohtani trotted around the bases after walloping a 430-foot home run and dominating the Tigers on the mound for eight innings. On Thursday, the fans came out to resume stalking history with Miguel Cabrera, cheering wildly as he knocked in four runs
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We saw it then, many of us. We still see it. Bill Freehan, flipping his mask, slowly stalking Tim McCarver’s pop-up between home plate and the first-base-side seats, smothering the ball in his fat mitt — and sending all of Detroit into ecstasy following that magical, marvelous, nearly miraculous world-championship season of 1968 when the Tigers
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Detroit — Jack Morris, a celebrated hero of the World Series-champion 1984 Detroit Tigers and a member of the team’s broadcast team for much of the past decade, has been suspended “indefinitely” by Bally Sports Detroit following his use of a perceived Asian accent during Tuesday night’s broadcast. Bally Sports Detroit made the announcement Wednesday
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The Tigers on Wednesday announced their spring-training schedule for 2022, opening with an exhibition against Southeastern University, followed by the opener against Washington. The Tigers are starting their 86th season at TigerTown in Lakeland, Florida. Ticket information will be announced at a later date. Tigers 2022 spring-training schedule (Game times will be announced at a
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Detroit — Jack Morris, a celebrated hero of the World Series-champion 1984 Detroit Tigers and a member of the team’s broadcast team for much of the past decade, has been suspended “indefinitely” by Bally Sports Detroit following his use of a perceived Asian accent during Tuesday night’s broadcast. Bally Sports Detroit made the announcement Wednesday afternoon,
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Jack Morris is in trouble, and rightly so. We had gotten beyond — supposedly — using ethnic mockery as part of our professional motif, whether it’s in a baseball broadcast booth or any other corridor of American life. But he stepped in it pretty deeply Tuesday night when, during the Los Angeles Angels-Detroit Tigers broadcast, he lapsed
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Detroit — Tigers television analyst Jack Morris gave a lengthy apology during Tuesday night’s game after comments in the sixth inning were perceived by some viewers as him using a Japanese accent as Los Angeles Angels star Shohei Ohtani was coming to the plate. Ohtani, the Angels’ two-way player who was hitting Tuesday and is
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Detroit — Turns out, the debate wasn’t whether or not to promote top prospects Spencer Turnbull and Riley Greene, as well as shortstop Ryan Kreidler, to Triple-A Toledo. The debate was whether to send them as a package or one at a time. There wasn’t much pushback on promoting them. “The organization really felt like the challenge
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Logistically, they’re only 75 miles from Detroit. From a baseball-skills perspective, they’re a bit farther. But that promotion to Triple-A Toledo that came Sunday for Riley Greene, Spencer Torkelson, Ryan Kreidler, and Brady Policelli, was about the Tigers’ plans for 2022 and beyond, and where they see at least three of the above as spring
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